Word: disks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They are bashing the smooth disk back and forth. They are competing a little. they are trying to send the puck into the other's goal. Mostly, though, they are dreaming...
...ailment, as its name suggests, is generally traceable to an impairment of one or both of the temporomandibular joints. These olive-size structures, composed of bone and a cushioning cartilage disk, are located at the points where the jaw meets the skull. TMJ may be triggered by infection, arthritis, a blow to the head, shouting at a football game, even chomping on a bagel. A major contributing factor is emotional stress that leads to teeth clenching or grinding. Excruciating pain radiating through the head and neck, earaches and muscle spasms are the most frequent complaints...
...inch scar running in front of the ear. Now surgeons are increasingly using arthroscopy, a technique originally devised to correct knee damage. They insert the arthroscope, a thin telescopic tube, through an incision in the jaw and use tiny instruments to wash out debris, reposition the disk or cut away scar tissue. The operation takes about an hour and leaves a mark no larger than a freckle. Proponents believe the availability of the procedure may increase the percentage of TMJ patients who choose surgery from 10% to as much...
...victims may need more radical interventions, such as completely removing the cartilage disk or implanting an artificial hinge. But many experts wince at some recommendations, such as capping every tooth in the patient's mouth in order to reconfigure a bad bite. So do TMJ sufferers. Ruth Shapiro, 40, of Los Angeles, demurred when told by an orthodontist that her only hope was to have reconstructive surgery that would involve breaking her jaw. "He said I wasn't even going to look the same," she recalls in horror. Dentists and patients alike hope such drastic prescriptions will soon disappear. Eventually...
...first glance, the union of the personal computer and the compact disc would seem to be a perfect match. The same CD that holds an hour of Mendelssohn or Madonna can be used to store more information than a thousand floppy disks. But the coupling of the two technologies has been stalled by a kind of Catch-22. Computer owners will not buy the special disk drives required to play CDs on their desktop machines until they know there is something worth playing. And software publishers are reluctant to develop new CD programs until there are enough disk drives...